Foster v. Bullard’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2012
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Krueger v. United States · Womack v. Allstate Insurance Company · Wilson v. Fisher · " MOORE" BURGER, INC. v. Phillips Petroleum Company · Smith Et Ux. v. Sorelle
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mutual took with actual notice of Foster’s first refusal purchase rights. To be a bona fide purchaser Mutual was obligated to make reasonable inquiry to determine whether Casa Monte had met its obligations under the option contract to offer the fifty acres to Foster at a price consistent with Mutual’s offer .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanchez v. Dickinson“[a]s soon as [the rightholder] was alerted to the fact that the [property] had been sold he initiated a search for the facts, an endeavor in which he was aided not at all by [the owner and the third party].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“diligent and prompt investigation ... to ascertain the facts surrounding the sale”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.